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New Insurance Options Available to Vermont Individuals and Small Businesses This Fall Park City, Utah (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 Today, Zane Benefits, Inc. published a new information on the Vermont Health Insurance Exchange. Zane Benefits, which provides comprehensive and flexible alternatives to traditional employer sponsored health benefits, is the leader in health care reform, defined contribution and health reimbursement arrangements. According to Zane Benefits’ website, starting in 2014...

Program provides scholarship awards to schools nominated by GENEX employees. WAYNE, PA (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 GENEX Services, Inc. (“GENEX”), the leading provider of case management services to the workers’ compensation, disability, and auto markets has announced the recipients of its second annual Case Manager Scholarship Award Program. The program will provide $100,000 in scholarship awards to schools nominated by GENEX employees that graduated from those institutions. The...

Nation's Largest and Most Influential Conference on Sustainable Health Care Draws 900+ Attendees in Boston (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 CleanMed, the nation’s premier conference on health care and sustainability, marked its tenth conference in 2013 by drawing more than 900 health care leaders to Boston to discuss best practices, learn from each other and preview innovative new technologies. Attendance was the highest since the conference began in 2001. CleanMed is convened and organized...

U.S. emergency care costs may be more than twice previously published estimates, according to a new analysis that critiques those estimates, argues for improved accounting, and suggests considering the value of emergency care as well as total spending. Alternately praised in the aftermath of horrible tragedies as a heroic service and lamented in policy debates as an expensive safety net for people without primary care, emergency medicine is often a hot topic. Despite that importance, an...

Cover Oregon to Help 560,000 Oregonians access health insurance. Park City, Utah (PRWEB) April 28, 2013 Today, Zane Benefits, Inc. published a new guide on the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange. Zane Benefits, which provides comprehensive and flexible alternatives to traditional employer sponsored health benefits, is the leader in defined contribution and health reimbursement arrangements. According to Zane Benefits’ website, starting in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),...

COLUMBIA, Md., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Every individual has a colossal interest in the future of health care, whether he knows it or not. Together we'll thrive or together we'll fall," says A. Maria Hester, MD, creator of the Patient Whiz App for iOS. "While ordinary citizens may not have control over life-altering decisions made by politicians and administrators in high places, they do have control over their own actions, or inactions. I believe everyone can play a pivotal...

The Two and A Half-Day Conference Served as an Essential Educational, Training, and Networking Event For Safety Net Clinics. Denver, Colo. (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Nearly 200 participants from approximately 90 organizations from across the state attended the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) 13th Annual Forum, which took place April 3-5. The Forum enabled participants to engage with experts on a variety of topics, including health policy and advocacy, health insurance exchange marketplace...

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New Leaf Africa (NLA) (www.NewLeafAfrica), leading provider of preservation, restoration, renewable energy and population health initiatives to least developed countries, has united with Mercy Ships to bring clean water and medical assistance to those less fortunate. Mercy Ships is an international medical charity providing free surgical and health care to some of the most underprivileged people, aiding those in 54 developing countries....

CHICAGO, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers who worked with a specially trained customer service champion to help them navigate the health care system were found to make more informed decisions that resulted in significant cost savings, according to data analyzed by Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the nation's largest customer-owned health insurer. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130401/AQ85974LOGO) HCSC, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans...

National Contest Calls on Health Care Organizations to Identify Roadblocks to Implementing New Care Models WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN), and The Advisory Board Company launched the Care Transformation Prize Series, a national contest to address the most daunting data problems U.S. health care organizations face as they implement new delivery system and payment reforms. (Logo:...